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		puls on May 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will... When you open a tab, your name just shows up next to the "charge a card" button. You pay when you normally would. It's not really breaking the normal purchase loop so much as removing all of the crap from it.

holman on May 23, 2011 [–]

So you open a tab prior to going to a place, and then the retailer sees all of the customers with recently-opened tabs?

puls on May 23, 2011 | [–]

Yep.

holman on May 23, 2011 | | [–]

Cool, that makes more sense. I'm satiated!

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